Both sources know more about Thailand than I do, and both may well be right but evidence of the guilt of whoever may be responsible is yet to emerge.

Whomever was responsible is clearly motivated by.an intent to harm the Thai economy and cause instability. A number of foreign tourists died in the attack. These acts of economic terrorism are now sadly familiar.

There appears to have been no claim of responsibility.

Unless you are trying to build a police state political violence is beyond useless. No-one achieves anything from these atrocities. Even when they achieve a major success, like the Khan Bani Saad attack in Eastern Iraq last month that killed more than a hundred people at the end of Ramadan. there is no achievement. Nothing has changed.

Given the fact that Thailand is under military control, there can be no excuses for a failure to solve this case.

The Plot Thickens.

Thai sources are claiming to have captured the person who planted the bomb on CCTV.

According to the Thai Government Tony Cartalucci was correct. Thai authorities are trying to blame it on the “Red Shirts” movement backing the Shinawatra faction or rogue elements within that movement, as this quote makes clear.

“Today there is a suspect who appeared on CCTV, but it’s not clear…. we are looking for this guy,” Prayut told reporters, adding that the bombing was the “worst-ever attack” on Thailand.”

“The northeast region is a stronghold of the so-called “Red Shirt” movement, which opposes the military junta and remains loyal to ex-Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who was toppled in a coup last year.”

“Army chief Udomedej Sitabutr said the male suspect was seen on closed-circuit television footage holding a suspicious-looking package before the bomb went off.”

Incoherence Implies Deception.

There have been many mixed and contradictory messages from the Thai authorities regarding these attacks that raise serious questions as to the authenticity of their narrative.

Following a definitive statement that the Thai authorities believed the “Red shirt” supporters were the group from which the attacker was drawn they are now backtracking wildly claiming that they do not know who the individual on the CCTV was nor whether he was Thai.

The Western media are predictably attempting to find a Muslim to blame, any Muslim, and if they are unable to blame a South East Asian incarnation of ISIl, they will blame the Muslim insurgents operating in Southern Thailand.

Deception.

It is clear that something is not right here as we seem to be witnessing different factions competing to insert different guilty parties into the narrative regardless of evidence.

It now seems that this event was some type of false flag attack, who did it and why they did it will presumably emerge as the investigation proceeds.